Match-card



(No Model.)

0. B. GARDINER.

MATCH CARD. No. 280,810. Patented July 10, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES B. GARDINER, OF RAYNHAM, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LEEDS, ROBINSON8t 00., OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

MATCH-CARD.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 280,810, dated July 10,1883. v Application filed April 9, 1883. (No model.) I

To all whom 216 may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. GARDINER,

of Raynham, county of Bristol, State of Massachusetts, have invented anImprovement in Match-Cards, of which the following description, inconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, likeletters on the drawings representing like parts.

My invention, relating to a match-card, has for its object to produce acard composed of a series of connected splints that are adapted to beeasily separated from one another Without waste of material,

Matchcards as heretofore made have in some instances been sawed throughfor a portion of their length to produce the independent splints, theunsawed portion servingto unite the splints together, and being easilybroken apart or split in continuation of the saw-cut. In some instancesthe cards have been split or out part way through from the side of thecard, thus enabling the splints to be readily separated from the cardwithout the removal of i any of the material. In my invention thematclrcard is grooved longitudinally 011 both faces nearly to the middleof the card, the said grooves being opposite one another, so that aseries of apparently independent splints are formed, they being unitedby the thin portion of the material at the middle of the card betweenthe grooves 011 the opposite faces, and being readily separated from oneanother by breaking the said material between the grooves. The groovesare preferablyof such shape as to give the splints a cylindrical shapesimilar in appearance to the best parlor-matches or wax tapers; and itwill be seen that a larger number of separate matches or splints can beformed from the same amount of material than when the sawed cards areused, and that the said cards are of more pleasing appearance and thesplints more easily separated than when the partly-split cards areemployed, and that there is less work by breaking the splints indetaching them from one another.

Figure 1 is a face view, and Fig. 2 an end view, of a matolrcardembodying this invention.

The card a is made from a thin strip or blank having its opposite facesprovided with a series of longitudinal grooves, 2, extending nearly butnot quite half -way through the card, so that a thin portion at themiddle thereof is uncut, serving to keep the different splints I)together to form a card, for convenience in dipping, packing, &c. Thesaid blank will usually be notched at one end, as shown at 3, the saidnotches corresponding in position with the groove 2, and serving toseparate the ends of the splints, so that they may each have anindependent portion of the igniting materials applied to them by dippingthe end of the card into the said material in the usual manner.

It will be seen that in cards of this construction the splints are veryreadily separated from one another or broken apart, although the cards.are sufficiently coherent to enable them to be readily handled in thesubsequent process of finishing the matches and packing them in bunches.The finished matches are of pleasing appearance 5 and it will be seenthat the stock removed in grooving does-not practically cause any wastefrom a given amount of stock, the said number being greater than whensome of the material is removed by sawing, and equal tothe number thatcan be produced in the split cards.

I claim The card longitudinally grooved on both sides to produce aseriesof connected splints, and notched at its end in line with the grooves,substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES B. GARDINER.

WVitnesses:

JAMES H. DEAN, SAMUEL T. J oN s.

